The Big Weekend Pod
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Hugh discusses the news of the week with Matt Continetti, Ben Domenech, John Ellis, Eli Lake, Doug Lesmerises, and Jonathan Williams.
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| 0:00.0 | America's about to lose the AI arms race. Not because of chips or code, but power. |
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| 0:31.1 | Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at Hillsdale. |
| 0:35.6 | I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale at Hillsdale.edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. |
| 0:39.8 | And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale.com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. |
| 0:48.0 | Morning, Lori, and even Grace, America, good Saturday morning to you, or perhaps Sunday. It's the big weekend pod. |
| 0:53.4 | So I don't know if you're listening on Saturday morning or Sunday. |
| 0:56.2 | Most people tell me they use it for their workout time on Saturday morning, which is great, |
| 1:00.9 | because it won't interfere with your watching the Browns tomorrow at 1 o'clock. |
| 1:05.7 | If you were watching Fox News yesterday, at about 115, I came on with the ugliest tie in the world, but it's the Cleveland |
| 1:11.8 | Brown's official tie. So I had to wear it. Bengals opening away from home against the Browns, |
| 1:17.9 | against him. They are 13 and 13. Now, the Browns have not been very good since they came back in |
| 1:22.3 | 1999. So for the Bengals to only be 13 and 13 in Cleveland says a lot about the Bengals. |
| 1:29.5 | And it tells you that you ought to be betting on the Browns. |
| 1:33.3 | If you're a betting person, I am not. |
| 1:35.1 | But I'm feeling pretty good about our Super Bowl odds this year and very good about the home opener odds. |
| 1:39.9 | I'm even feeling better about today's podcast because we had China News, we had Israel News, |
| 1:47.3 | we had news about elections, we had news about all sorts of different things, |
| 1:51.7 | and I was able to talk to the regular lineup, Continenti, Dominic, John Ellis from news items, |
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